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As a component of the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center, IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk is designed to help reduce the complexity of managing SAN storage devices by allowing administrators to configure, manage and performance monitor storage from a single console.
Productivity Center for Disk is designed to:
- Configure multiple storage devices from a single console
- Monitor and track the performance of SAN attached Storage Management Interface Specification (SMI-S) compliant storage devices
Committed to open standards This solution is architected to SNIA's (Storage Networking Industry Association) SMI-S and supports compliant SAN components such as:
Advanced Provisioning
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk is an integral piece of the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center with Advanced Provisioning solution and is designed to allow you to automate capacity provisioning capabilities through automated workflows.
Product highlights
The IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk includes many advanced features to helps simplify and streamline your device management.
- An integrated administration console designed to simplify the management of multiple storage devices by allowing you to perform administrative tasks from a single console. It is designed to enable aggregation and grouping of devices and provide policy based actions across multiple storage devices.
- Performance Management capabilities designed to help you maximize the performance of your devices by collecting and storing performance data, allowing you to intelligently tune your SAN devices by offering performance monitoring and alerts.
- Volume Performance Advisor is designed to optimize storage allocations by analyzing workload profiles and providing advice on the best location to choose or create volumes in an IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server.
